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Fukushima

Fukushima is the capital city of in , in the Fukushima Basin and its surrounding parts. Known for its fruit production, Fukushima is particularly proud of their peaches, but pears and apples and persimmons are also grown.
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  • Type: City with 283,000 residents
  • Description: city in Fukushima prefecture, Japan
  • Also known as: “Fukushimashi”, “Furukawa”, “Hukushima”, and “Hukusima”
  • Neighbors: , , and
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Fukushima and Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art.

Railway station
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Station is a railway station in the city of , , Japan. The station is the terminus for the JR East Yamagata Shinkansen, and Ōu Main Line, as well as the third-sector Abukuma Express Line and privately operated Kotsu Iizaka Line.

Museum
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is a museum located in Fukushima City, at the base of Mount Shinobu. It shares a campus of over 60,000 square meters with Fukushima Prefectural Library.

Railway station
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Bijutsukantoshokanmae Station is a railway station in the city of Fukushima, , Japan operated by Fukushima Kōtsū. The station's name translates to "In Front of the Art Museum and Library", as it is the station that serves the and the Fukushima Prefectural Library.

Fukushima

Latitude
37.7608° or 37° 45′ 39″ north
Longitude
140.4746° or 140° 28′ 29″ east
Population
283,000
Elevation
77 metres (253 feet)
IATA airport code
FKS
United Nations Location Code
JP FKF
Open location code
8R92QF6F+8R
Open­Street­Map ID
node 734866113
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2112923
Wiki­data ID
Q161176
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Zhuang—“Fukushima” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Fukushima”
  • Arabic: “فوكوشيما”
  • Aragonese: “Fukushima”
  • Armenian: “Ֆուկուսիմա”
  • Asturian: “Fukushima”
  • Azerbaijani: “Fukuşima”
  • Balinese: “Fukushima, Fukushima”
  • Basque: “Fukushima”
  • Belarusian: “Фукусіма”
  • Bengali: “ফুকুশিমা”
  • Breton: “Fukushima”
  • Bulgarian: “Фукушима”
  • Burmese: “ဖူကူရှီးမားမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Fukushima”
  • Cebuano: “Fukushima-shi (kapital sa prepektura sa Hapon)”
  • Cebuano: “Fukushima-shi”
  • Central Bikol: “Fukushima, Fukushima”
  • Central Bikol: “Fukushima”
  • Central Kurdish: “فووکووشیما”
  • Chechen: “Фукусима (гӀала)”
  • Chechen: “Фукусима”
  • Chinese: “Hukusima-chhī”
  • Chinese: “福岛市”
  • Chinese: “福島市”
  • Croatian: “Fukushima”
  • Czech: “Fukušima”
  • Danish: “Fukushima”
  • Dutch: “Fukushima”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فوكوشيما”
  • Esperanto: “Fukuŝima”
  • Esperanto: “Fukuŝimo”
  • Estonian: “Fukushima”
  • Finnish: “Fukushima”
  • French: “Fukushima”
  • Galician: “Fukushima”
  • German: “Fukushima”
  • Greek: “Φουκουσίμα”
  • Gujarati: “ફૂકુશીમા”
  • Hebrew: “פוקושימה”
  • Hindi: “फुकुशिमा”
  • Hungarian: “Fukusima”
  • Icelandic: “Fukushima”
  • Indonesian: “Fukushima, Fukushima”
  • Indonesian: “Fukushima”
  • Irish: “Fukushima”
  • Italian: “Fukushima”
  • Japanese: “Fukushima-shi”
  • Japanese: “ふくしま”
  • Japanese: “フクシマ”
  • Japanese: “ふくしまし”
  • Japanese: “フクシマシ”
  • Japanese: “福島”
  • Japanese: “福島市”
  • Japanese: “福島町”
  • Kannada: “ಫುಕುಷಿಮಾ”
  • Korean: “후꾸시마”
  • Korean: “후쿠시마시”
  • Kurdish: “Fukushima”
  • Kurdish: “فوکوسهما”
  • Latvian: “Fukusima”
  • Latvian: “Fukušima”
  • Literary Chinese: “福島市”
  • Lithuanian: “Fukushima”
  • Lithuanian: “Fukušima”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Fukushima”
  • Macedonian: “Фукушима”
  • Malagasy: “Fukushima”
  • Malay: “Fukushima”
  • Malayalam: “ഫുക്കുഷിമ നഗരം”
  • Marathi: “फुकुशिमा-शी”
  • Marathi: “फुकुशिमा”
  • Mazanderani: “فوکوشیما”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Fukushima-chhī”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hukusima-chhī”
  • Northern Frisian: “Fukushima”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Fukushima”
  • Norwegian: “Fukushima”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Fukushima”
  • Persian: “فوکوشیما”
  • Polish: “Fukushima”
  • Portuguese: “Fucoxima”
  • Portuguese: “Fukushima”
  • Romanian: “Fukushima”
  • Romanian: “Fukușima”
  • Russian: “Фукусима”
  • Sardinian: “Fukushima”
  • Serbian: “Fukušima”
  • Serbian: “Фукушима”
  • Serbian: “福島市”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Fukushima”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Fukušima”
  • Sicilian: “Fukushima”
  • Sinhala: “ෆුකුෂිමා”
  • Slovak: “Fukušima”
  • Slovenian: “Fukushima”
  • Slovenian: “Fukušima, Fukušima”
  • Slovenian: “Fukušima”
  • South Azerbaijani: “فوکوشیما”
  • Spanish: “Fukushima”
  • Swahili: “Fukushima, Fukushima”
  • Swahili: “Fukushima”
  • Swedish: “Fukushima”
  • Tagalog: “Fukushima”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Fukushima”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Pukusyima”
  • Tajik: “Fukuşima”
  • Tajik: “Фукушима”
  • Tamil: “புகுசிமா”
  • Tatar: “Фукусима”
  • Tatar: “Фукучима”
  • Telugu: “ఫుకుషిమా”
  • Thai: “ฟุกุชิมะ”
  • Thai: “ฟูกูชิมะ”
  • Turkish: “Fukushima”
  • Turkish: “Fukuşima”
  • Twi: “Fukushima”
  • Ukrainian: “Фукусіма”
  • Ukrainian: “Фукушіма”
  • Urdu: “فوکوشیما”
  • Uzbek: “Fukusima”
  • Venetian: “Fukushima”
  • Vietnamese: “Fukushima”
  • Vietnamese: “Phước Đảo thị”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Fukushima”
  • Wu Chinese: “福岛市”
  • Yue Chinese: “福島市”
  • Zhuang: “Fuzdauj Si”

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